Kauffman Motor Vehicle Company

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ManufacturerKauffman Motor Vehicle Company
Production1906–12
Kauffman Motor Vehicle Company plant (1905) Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Miamisburg, Montgomery County, Ohio, 1905, Plate 0002.jpg
Kauffman Motor Vehicle Company plant (1905)

Kauffman Motor Vehicle Company was a pioneer brass era, American automobile company, built in Miamisburg, Ohio, from 1909 until 1912. [1]

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History

The company was begun in 1906 [2] as the Kauffman Buggy Company, providing bodies and chassis for Hatfield, located across town. In 1908, as Hatfield ran into financial difficulties, [3] the two firms merged, to form the Advance Motor Vehicle Company.

Under the Advance name, they introduced a four-passenger roadster with a refined version of Hartfield's four-cylinder on a 104 in (2642 mm) wheelbase. [2] The Model C sold for US$1000, [2]

Advance became the Kauffman Motor Car Company in 1911, and folded the next year. [4]

Notes

  1. Kimes, Beverly Rae. The Standard Catalog of American Cars, 1805–1942 (Iola, Wisconsin: Krause Publications, 1989), p.761.
  2. 1 2 3 Kimes, p.761.
  3. Kimes, p.652.
  4. Kimes, 761.

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